Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Contemplation of one's own thoughts, feelings, and sensations; self-examination.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of looking inward; a view of the inside or interior; specifically, the act of directly observing the states and processes of one's own mind; examination of one's own thoughts or feelings. Introspection is employed in psychology as the only method of directly ascertaining the facts of consciousness; but the limits of its applicability and the value of the results attained by it are subjects of dispute.
Wiktionary
- n. A looking inward; specifically, the act or process of self-examination, or inspection of one's own thoughts and feelings; the cognition which the mind has of its own acts and states; self-consciousness; reflection.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A view of the inside or interior; a looking inward the act or process of self-examination, or inspection of one's own thoughts and feelings; the cognition which the mind has of its own acts and states; self-consciousness; reflection.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the contemplation of your own thoughts and desires and conduct
Examples
“Instead, Shaftesbury assumes that the language in which we conduct our introspection is always public.”
“To open oneself up to that introspection is almost the first step to a true religiosity, where you can be honest with yourself and humble in the way I think you have to be in order to be truly religious.”
“I agree with Urstoff - introspection is a pretty weak argument.”
Testing the Freedom to Choose, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“On the other hand, I have much less faith in introspection than Caplan and the Austrians, despite some of my other Austrian leanings.”
Beyond the Pale, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“(Of course, my introspection is fallible - if I can find some good data, I'll followup with a few simple statistical tests).”
“Of course, “Semi-Pro” was helmed by Kent Alterman, producer of such comedy classics as “Balls of Fury” and “Mr. Woodcock,” and written by Scot “School for Scoundrels” Armstrong, so such introspection is understandably shallow … even by mainstream Hollywood standards.”
“They are unpracticed in introspection, and therefore badly equipped to deal with opponents whom they cannot shoot like big game or outdo in daring … The hard-boiled are compensated for their silence: they fly planes or fight bulls or catch tarpon, whereas I rarely leave my room.”
“But for the most part, introspection is the psychological equivalent of description.”
“Mostly, we crave introspection from the author and from the characters we read about.”
“And anyone who thinks American introspection translates into a lack of criticism of foreign terrorism just isn't thinking.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘introspection’.
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Psychology
Chapter 1
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
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Holli
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My Words
Words that I use regularly and consider mine.
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JLaughWork's Words
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Tolland's list
Those I've come across and try to keep fresh within my mind.
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my dictionary
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Dictionary.com Words of the Days of 2000
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Pleasing words
A list of miscellaneous words, fitting in no exact theme, that I happen to enjoy.
portmanteau, aesthetic, deviation, conglomerate, treachery, soluble, bildungsroman, soliloquy, irrevocable, effervescent, phrontistery, aeipathy and 180 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
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Lingoooo
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Morbidity
sickness (preferably of the brain)
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